Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:25:26 -0700 (MST) From: Edward Ajhar <ajhar@noao.edu> To: jmg@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/4576 Message-ID: <199804271725.KAA23636@husa.tuc.noao.edu> In-Reply-To: <199804262316.QAA14400@freefall.freebsd.org> (message from John-Mark Gurney on Sun, 26 Apr 1998 16:16:13 -0700 (PDT)) References: <199804262316.QAA14400@freefall.freebsd.org>
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John-Mark Gurney <jmg@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote... Synopsis: mfs does not mount requested size from /etc/fstab State-Changed-From-To: analyzed-closed State-Changed-By: jmg State-Changed-When: Sun Apr 26 16:12:48 PDT 1998 State-Changed-Why: this has been working for a LONG time... as the follow up states, it's a user error... not a FreeBSD problem... With all due respect, while I understand your view, the follow-up did _not_ state that it was a user error, which it is not; rather, Peter Wemm's <peter@spinner.dialix.com.au> reply exactly identified the shortcomings in the system and suggested a fix. Did his fix ever happen? Did any fix ever happen? I honestly do not know if it has. This is at least a documentation bug. One should be able to follow the directions of the man pages and get the documented results. If one does not, this is by definition a "bug." If that means in this case that the user must be warned about the consequences of "login.conf" settings on mount_mfs not necessarily giving the size requested when issued in /etc/fstab, then the man pages should present such a warning. If FreeBSD closed this PR without fixing this bug in some way, then other people will also innocently follow the documentation and, without warning, run into the same "bug." If a correction for this problem has been applied to FreeBSD, then you may ignore this message. If not, then please keep the PR open until someone has the time and inclination to fix the problem in some manner. Otherwise, I see little point in reporting many kinds of bugs. One of my goals as a FreeBSD user is to help make the system better for everyone. Reporting such problems is one way I do this. --Ed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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